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  • In case the reader has any doubt about whether this is done, we may draw attention to remarks of German biologist Dieter Walossek, commenting on the fact that key fossils crucial to the Neo-Darwinian explanation of life were not found in Pre-Cambrian rock formations in a major Chinese discovery: It doesn't matter if you find it [the missing fossil record] or not! ...

    Crossroads 2009

  • I remember going on a driving field trip in Oklahoma and finding the lone Pre-Cambrian outcrop.

    I'm Proud of Wyoming - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • The Albertine Rift has been formed from a combination of uplifted Pre-Cambrian basement rocks and recent volcanic activity.

    Albertine Rift montane forests 2009

  • Suriname is part of the Guayana Shield a two billion-year-old Pre-Cambrian formation that stretches over eastern Venezuela, Guayana, Suriname and northern Brazil.

    Suriname 2009

  • Passengers might conceivably return to the height of the Roman Empire in half an hour, were such trips permitted, but to reach the Pre-Cambrian Depot took a little longer.

    The 10 Worst Stories I Ever Tried to Write - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009

  • The nominated World Heritage site includes three distinct geomorphologic units, each one corresponding to different geologic phases: (a) Pre-Cambrian metamorphic and magma gneiss outcrops forming round-shaped hills, which are the oldest and highest formations, and are located most distant from the sea.

    Discovery Coast Atlantic Forest Reserves, Brazil 2009

  • That poor kid--her parents will probably make her childhood a misery by referring to their marriage before she arrived as the "Pre-Cambrian Era".

    What's Black & White & Wrecked All Over? 2009

  • The fact that the Pre-Cambrian fossil record is devoid of any empirical evidence supporting a macro-evolutionary development from single celled organisms upward to advanced life over vast eons means that Darwinists argue from complete empirical silence, and once again exhibit a form of blind faith.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • It is home to some of the oldest rocks in the region, which date back approximately 600 million years to the Pre-Cambrian period.

    Milford Haven, Wales 2008

  • These overlie a basement complex of Pre-Cambrian granitic igneous rocks.

    Southwestern Arabian montane woodlands 2008

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